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Genesis 17:1-2 — Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless.
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly."
Leviticus 19:2 — "Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, `You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
Leviticus 20:7 — ~`You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:26 — ~`Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.
Psalms 15:1-2 — O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill?
He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart.
Psalms 24:3-4 — Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? And who may stand in His holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood And has not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 73:1 — Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart!
Psalms 119:1 — How blessed are those whose way is (Lit {complete;} or {having integrity}) blameless, Who walk in the law of the LORD.
Isaiah 35:8 — A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it {will} be for him who walks {that} way, And fools will not wander {on it.}
Micah 6:8 — He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?
Luke 1:74-75 — To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
John 15:19 — ~"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
Romans 6:1-2 — What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 6:11-13 — Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin {as} instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members {as} instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:18 — and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Romans 8:1 — Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 12:1-2 — Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, {which is} your spiritual service of worship.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:9 — {Let} love {be} without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 — Do you not know that you are a temple of God and {that} the Spirit of God dwells in you?
If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 — Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 10:31 — Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 7:1 — Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Galatians 5:24-25 — Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Ephesians 1:4 — just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before (Or {Him, in love}) Him. In love
Ephesians 4:23-24 — and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and put on the new self, which in {the likeness of} God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Ephesians 5:1 — Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
Ephesians 5:8-10 — for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
(for the fruit of the Light {consists} in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
Philippians 2:15 — so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
Philippians 4:8 — Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
Colossians 1:22 — yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
1 Thessalonians 3:13 — so that He may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 — For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 — abstain from every (Or {appearance}) form of evil.
1 Timothy 4:8 — for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and {also} for the {life} to come.
Hebrews 12:9-10 — Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He {disciplines us} for {our} good, so that we may share His holiness.
1 Peter 1:15-16 — but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all {your} behavior;
because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."
2 Peter 3:10-12 — But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be (Two early mss read {discovered}) burned up.
Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!
1 John 1:9 — If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
3 John 1:11 — Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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